Joel Eshikumo

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New York, May 10,
2012--Kenyan authorities must immediately investigate recent death
threats against a Kenyan journalist, the Committee to Protect Journalists said
today.

Local businessman Armstrong
Pino allegedly threatened Joel Eshikumo, a reporter for the Weekly
Citizenand a political columnist for the weekly Western Times, in public on Saturday over photographs the journalist
had taken of him in court on April 27, local journalists told CPJ. Eshikumo told
CPJ that unidentified callers had threatened him every night since Saturday,
saying they would burn his house down and telling him to be prepared to die
over the pictures he had taken of Pino in court.